Rotate an Image

How to rotate an image

1. Select your photo.
2. Tap rotate left, rotate right or 180°, or drag the angle slider.
3. For angles that are not multiples of 90°, choose what fills the corners.
4. Press Rotate and download.

Why a photo can look rotated in one app and not another

Cameras rarely rotate the pixels when you turn the phone. Instead they record an EXIF orientation tag saying "display this rotated 90° clockwise". Software that reads the tag shows it correctly; software that ignores it shows it sideways. That inconsistency is why the same file looks upright in your gallery and sideways after uploading it somewhere.

This tool bakes the rotation into the pixels themselves, so the result is unambiguous — every viewer sees the same thing regardless of metadata support.

Straightening a crooked horizon

Small angles — one to three degrees — fix most tilted shots. Rotating by a non-right angle leaves triangular gaps at the corners, so you have two options:

• Fill them with transparent, white, black or a custom colour.
• Crop them away afterwards with the crop tool, which is what photographers normally do. Expect to lose a few percent of the frame.

Quality

Rotations of exactly 90°, 180° or 270° are pixel-perfect — the pixels are simply rearranged. Arbitrary angles require resampling, which softens fine detail very slightly. Rotate once from the original rather than repeatedly.